[Eternal_Bear]

The relationship bewteen Batman and Robin was always a bit strange wasn't it?

[Nephi]

The relationship bewteen Batman and Robin was always a bit strange wasn't it?

Not at all. Do you think the same thing of the participants in the Big Brother program?

I always viewed Robin as a Batman in training, but Robin was a stand in for every young boy who wished he could tag along with Batman. Robin was also a sort of literary device - Batman explained things to his readers by explaining them to Robin.

[Revolting cat!]

The relationship bewteen Batman and Robin was always a bit strange wasn't it?

Yeah, and what about the relationship between Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? Now, that's a flaming duo!

[Clemenza]

You beat me to it. I was going to say that DC was way ahead of this bobbin' buckaroo, with Bruce Wayne/Batman and his "youthful ward"/"Boy Wonder" Dick Grayson.